Pajamas and School Parties

The last week of school before Christmas break both of the kids had pajama parties at school. This is Avery's dream come true, that girl LOVE LOVE LOVES pajamas more than anything (well maybe except sweets) in this world!!!!

She has NEVER been this happy about getting dressed to go anywhere.

You will notice that she has her fuzzy house socks and of course her favorite animal Clover.

Kyler is just the opposite of Avery and he kept saying it sure felt weird to leave the house in pajamas. Avery had to get in on the picture.

Kyler's party was a lot of fun! He has two awesome teachers and the kids made four different crafts and then had a great lunch before watching Polar Express. It was so sweet that after the party Kyler said "Mom you've never missed one of my parties, that's so cool!" Its nice to know that me being at his school things mean as much to him as it does to me.

I love this picture of Kyler dancing! Kyler is very shy and serious at school, so to see him dancing and having such a great time made me so happy. You can kind of see his teacher Mrs Jones smiling and enjoying this as much as me. Before I left both of his teachers told me how happy they are to see Kyler coming out of his shell and feeling comfortable enough to be himself. I love this boy!!!

This snowman ornament was the craft station I was in charge of. I quickly remembered why I did not become a teacher, I don't have the patience to work with kids , but it was fun.

Preschool is all about the parties!! Besides the Polar Express pajama day, Avery had a Christmas Party that Friday. They made two sweet treats and an ornament, had face painting (which Avery had no interest in) and then a pizza lunch.

Avery and Jordyn with their trees in progress. Jordyn stopped for the picture but Avery was to busy eating the frosting and M&M's to pose for me.

Avery and her finished tree.

Avery and Jordyn (with Abe and Ava behind them) with their Christmas trees and Santa cupcakes.

Finishing up their ornaments.

Our Christmas Angel

Avery was an angel in her school's Christmas Program. She looked so cute and was really excited to be in the program and sing the songs they'd been practicing.

I love how her halo kept slipping through the program.

After the program all she wanted to do was get out of her costume and get to the refreshments, but she did let me take one picture.

Christmas Lights

We took a wonderful Christmas outing with our good friends Jeff, Marchelle, Cody & Katie to see a wonderful light display. After a nice dinner we headed to the Spirit of the Suwannee Park. It was a drive-thru display that was great. At the end of the display we went to see Santa, enjoy some hot chocolate and watch the kazoo show. We had a great time!

Gotta love the large ornaments hanging with the spanish moss!

They had a light display that was going on in the little village and there were these little green lights moving all around and Avery thought they were bugs or something and kept trying to catch them (if you look close you will see the green light between her fingers).

Camping Trip

We went on a camping trip with our friends Jeff, Marchele, Cody, and Katie. We stayed for two nights at a campground on the Suwannee River. We went on hikes, fished, took a boat ride, roasted over the fire, played cards and had an all around great time.

Each night when it got dark armadillos would come up to the campsite looking for food. They were so gross and because of the dry leaves all over the ground one armadillo sounded like a herd of animals. We also had deer come right up to our campsite and were able to feed them.

We did have a scare our first night when Avery was trying to throw leaves into the fire and tripped. I looked over and it seemed that she was in the fire but we were so blessed that she fell into the grill that was up and didn't go into the fire. She had two burns on her arm but they turned out to not be bad at all. Avery and I were very shaken up but we made it through.

We spotted this large gator while on our boat ride.

CUTEST Pilgrim

Avery had a wonderful Thanksgiving Feast that included a really cute program of the kids singing a few songs in Pilgrim and Indian costumes.

The Big 7

I can't believe Kyler is 7. He was so excited for his birthday and all he wanted was a paper jams guitar, a telescope, and to go the Museum of Science and History (MOSH). We were glad to make all his birthday requests come true!

Rocking out on his new guitar!!

Checking out the stars with his new telescope.

Enjoying his Batman party.

Checking out the albino cat fish (who knew there was such a thing!)

Checking out the space exhibit while he and Corey waited to go into the Planetarium.

Avery playing in the kids area while the guys were in the Planetarium

(she was not interested in that!)

Mario and Cinderella

We had a fun Halloween season!!!

Kyler's masterpiece of a pumpkin. He talked his Grandpa into buying him an electric carver and I have to admit once we showed him how to use it he was careful and did a good job!

Avery needed some help,
but she was her usual bossy self so she was directing me the whole time!

Avery had a great time and her school's Fall Festival!

Avery and her BFF Jordyn!

Kyler's class had a really fun Halloween Party.

The poor guy was really sick though and probably shouldn't have even gone to school,

but I didn't have the heart to make him miss his party.

Meme got her to visit a few days before Halloween and we were all so happy to have her here!

The kids looked so cute in their costumes.

Kyler is not a big candy eater so he would have quit after just a few houses

but Avery wanted to keep going.

Then she got so scared of a kid in a Dr Love/Kiss costume that Corey had to carry her

the rest of the way home. The funny thing is now Kyler is fascinated by Kiss.